Test found on Sna's journal.

Your home is a Magic Magnate's Castle

Your kitchen is someplace you never go, because you "have people for that." There's a Chocolatessin, a word you made up yourself, but that is beginning to catch on among your wealthy neighbors. Your master bedroom is the size of a small barn, with carpet thick enough to reach your ankles. Your study has hardback editions of every classic ever written, plus a special edition of Rich Dad, Poor Dad with the parts you ghost-authored highlighted. One of your garages holds your collection of ferraris, and is measured in acreage.

Your home also includes a guest wing and private quarters for your servants. Your guests enjoy your home theater with hi-def plasma screen TV, and the thrones you watch it from. Outside is your hedge maze and gardens, meticulously tended by a team of world-class botanists.

Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

Find YOUR Dream Home!

My first Aon event was pleasant. I only started to feel like it when I was already in character, which is very late because normally I have quite some anticipatory pleasure weeks before the event. However, it was my first solo playing event in a long time, it was raining when I got there and I had some stress with my Mio and making an IC tent last-minute. That last thing did pick up my spirits a bit, since it has been done in half a day and looks rather good (for something made out of green curtains), if I may say so myself.

We started by getting all newbies, like myself, into the dark and muddy forest, carrying our luggage. I had borrowed Matthijs' IC chest and filled it with Annebels belongings (dress, nightgown, tent, hand mirror, some jewelry and tools, bedding, etc). First thing the SL did was grope around in the chest and taking away the valuable stuff like jewelry. Darn, there goes the merchandise/bribes. Then we went into the forest and walked for a few kilometers in the dark, with our luggage. Fortunately one of the men was gallant enough to offer some help.

When we arrived at the spot where we were put on land by the boat, we started walking all the way back to get to the settlement. This time Lieutenant Even (spelling?) ordered her man (Ares) to carry my chest for me for which I was, both in and out of character, very grateful. On our way to the settlement we were being watched from the brush and when we were close enough to actually see the village some of us were attacked and fell asleep. There were Talfar in the woods, a tribe of slave traders hunting for merchandise.

When I was inside the village walls (or wall, some part was missing) I put up my little tent and went into the bar to write about my adventures. There I was tapped on the shoulder by a man from the militia, warning me that I could not just sit there and write if I didn't have a permit/certificate. So I went to the priestess of Nandoah, one of the priests of the Domus in this New Land, and asked for a certificate. The rest of the night was spent writing ('practising') in her tent and talking about laws and such.

The next morning started really chaotic with some guys' eyes being cut out because of disagreeing with Holster (head of militia) and Ares being stoned to death because of being an enemy of Holster. OC I thought it great, I like drama and harsh things like that on a larp. IC I got sick and wondered what on earth I had gotten myself into.

I won't go into detail on the rest of the event. I spent most of my time with the DeMerodes, a ritualist family and my neighbours in the village. Got kidnapped on Saturday night by the Talfar, though it was a bit of an OC/IC mix up. I was asked to leave the DeMerodes tent because they had to talk OC, but when I was two steps outside I got kidnapped IC. I went with the monster crew anyway and was sold later on the slave market. Fortunately some of the knights (I think, it was very dark) and drow bought me and my fellow slaves back.

The village was in total chaos because of some seal of Nandoah being broken by a priest of Celes and the DeMerodes trying to fix that in a second ritual. However, something went wrong and Kiara disappeared. Rest of the night I tried keeping Tibor, Kiara's brother, from doing something stupid like dashing himself against the power of the new seal or killing the Celes priest.

On Sunday the DeMerodes tried a new ritual to get satisfaction for Nandoah (a Celes ritual had been performed during the dark hours) and for the DeMerodes family, who had lost one of its members. During this ritual the Celes priest (drugged or half knock out) got killed and then every ritualist was gone. They all disappeared, leaving me feeling alone and dumbstruck.

Almost everybody that Annebel met (Ares, the Celes priest, the DeMerodes), is dead or disappeared now. She's very confused about it all and is seriously asking herself why the hell she had to leave home. On top of all the disappearing or dying people, three waves of people came rushing into the village crying about Holster being a murderer, but they all got killed and Holster still lives. This village really is a hell hole.

So, despite the fact that I didn't do any researching like I had planned, I did have a good time and the weather was great. Seeing all those people again felt good too.
In two weeks is Symbols 6: Moon and I'm looking forward to that.

Anyone can create a usable website. It takes a graphic designer to make it slow, confusing, and painful to use.

Guess what business I'm in....

Well, I'm finally registered with my new doctor here in Enschede. Also made an appointment with my dentist and I brought my locker for repair and already got it back as well (reparations were 2/3 of the price I payed Suus for taking over the thing). I pimped my livingroom with some nice autumn things, made a 'muppet' (sheepskin cover) for my tin whistle and got six meters of velcro tape ('klitteband') for a secret Exodus plot.

I received my Mio C220 at last and already played around with it a bit. It can even plan routes for pedestrians and bicycles. I think I'll drive a small testround with it before going of to Uden next Friday. To get used to the thing.

There's still not much Aon-feeling going on for me. I really need to think about what my character is going to do when she gets there. It would've been nice to begin struggling with a small triangle tent, but I don't have an IC tent so there ends that.
I just really hope it will be at least a bit dry (* looks out of the window and sees pouring rain *) and then I'll amuse myself by doing stupid little things. I usually do amuse myself at larps with stupid little things like writing a diary, braiding wool strands etc. I'm not much of a plot following type. ;-)

And if it won't be much fun I'll have wasted a weekend and some money, but I will have a nice new costume and more driving experience. However, I'm going to try to make the most of it. Now if I could just get the feeling....

Symbols preparations are going better than Aon's. The Varaashi-plot has been mailed to the pack members and SL, the representation stones are done (white nail polish images on black stones). I might pimp my costume a bit and I still need to practise reading Kinon, but the writing is still ok. Also need to finish reading 'The way of magic', but I printed it in the Kinon font, so that will take me a while.
Rob is going to drive us to Symbols, since my mom will be in Ireland with the car. Yay for Rob!

Now, I really need to get back to work, though I don't much feel like it with my stuffed head (got a nose-cold). Hope it will get better before camping at Aon.

Last weekend was the Evolution Events weekend, a nice unofficial weekend with 'the guys' at my place here in Enschede. We chilled, drank booze, played a game, watched some movies (one of them really horrible), chatted and ate pizza.

The new EE website is up and running as well. It's skinnable (by us) and the center part stretches and shrinks with the size of your browser. So if you have a very wide resolution, it will stretch to fit, using available space for content. Design was done by Olga, who has also made a new fantastic trailer, which can be found on our new multimedia section on the website.

Next to fun we also had some plotting and propping to do for coming Exodus event. Sna brought me a lot of fabric for costumes and Sunday evening, after the house was clean again, I started working. And then my locker broke. Some part literally broke off, so it will have to be brought to a shop for reparations. Bugger! Then again, a general checkup would be nice and I'm a working girl so I'll be able to just pay the bill without having to save for months first.

Another nasty thing is that the navigation system that I ordered was 'delivered' on Friday the 30th. I was away for 2 hours that day and naturally missed the delivery, so there was a note in my mailbox telling me that on Saturday the 1st of September (i.e. the next day) the package would be delivered somewhere between 09.00 and 13.00. It never came. On Monday there was no delivery either but of course I only thought of calling SelektVracht at 17.08 when they were 8 minutes closed.
Today I wasn't at home either (at Amsterdam for work) and I didn't bring the phone number, so I filled in some form on their website. Still waiting for a reply.

And then there's this car thing. My mom's new car will arrive (hopefully) half November, when I was looking forward to driving it this month. I have booked the car for Aon, but we'll have to figure out how my mom will be going to work that day or if I have to pick up the car in Apeldoorn.

Also been hacked again. * sigh * Ninni had a leakage in the old Wordpress blog that I used for my graduation project. Some asshole put some movies on my server (it's a really fast network here) and tried to connect to a botnet via ninni. Fortunately the campus here detects such things and put ninni in quarantine, which pointed me (or actually Matthijs) to the hack. I have upgraded Wordpress to the newest stable release now and Matthijs is installing a firewall. Geez... two times in a few months....

The planning for Varaashi-in-loincloth has been done this weekend, but now I have to get ready for Aon. Still not all my gear is ready and I don't have any feeling with the character yet. I've just been too busy with other things lately to even look forward to Aon. However, my costume looks nice on me and leaves plenty of room for warm underclothes. Something that will definitely be necessary in this cold climate.